Ok, I was trying to maintain a thread where it was censored at a minimum and it worked until recently. One of the advantages of this thread (blogging thread) here at Head-Fi is that is DOES NOT get routinely policed by the powers that be here as do the others. This is appealing to me as I am a creature of freedom. Another advantage (for me) of lurking/posting here is that there are few/no snowflakes and even less sympathy for them.
That makes for an environment where few are genuinely offended and most are thick-skinned. The only way to draw the powers that be here is to say something which is egregiously offensive, and that post will be reported by some hurt party, then the moderators/censors come in, not just to be ashlos, but to silence and appease the complainants.
Common sense would be, for example, not to make posts about dead children. Those who have lost children could well understand, for example, Mahler, who expressed the anger, hollowness, ache, and tradgedy perfectly in his music. Widowers would be likely to be hurt by glib or cruel statements about dead wives. Jokes about coarse Americans, dumb Norweigans, Italian war heroes, etc., etc. are similarly likely to either hurt or piss people off.
Jokes about weird-assed vinyl listeners, deaf solid-state fans, socially inept computer audio geeks, well that's OK. After all, this an audio forum. If you are an audio snowflake, find another thread.
What happened was that someone said something about Americans which started a flame war which spawned reports which caused the censors to drop before I had a chance to intervene and edit the post, something which I would have done. I fought the censorship all the way to the top, and got all posts back but one.
I have something to learn from everyone on this thread. It is not my intent to lock out anyone. It is just that writing "play nice" posts like this makes this thread much less fun for me. Some come on, folks – it is not that difficult.